Emma (Klein) Turner (1925)

CAMP, DUTTON, KLEIN, TURNER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:57

The Osceola Tribune
Osceola, Iowa
Thursday, January 14, 1926
Page 4, Column 5

Mrs. Emma Klein Turner, daughter of Henry and Kate Klein, was born in Des Moines County, Iowa, July 24th, 1867. At the age of fourteen she, with her parents moved to Madison county about five miles south of Peru.

Sept. 29th, 1887 she was married to Walter H. Turner of Madison Co., moving to Winterset with him where they resided until 1894, when they moved to a farm in Clarke county eight miles southwest of Truro. In 1915 they moved to Truro where they still resided at the time of her death on December 28th, 1925.

In 1890 she was converted to Christ and with her husband, united with the Church of Christ in Winterset. In 1912 they moved their membership to the Madison Chapel, and later to the Truro Christian church. Mrs. Turner was always interested in the church as well as all other good and benevolent causes, taking an active part as teacher in the Sunday school and all the social and benevolent departments of the church. Besides her activities in the church, she was a member of the Eastern Star at St. Charles and of the Pythian Sisters and the Woman’s Relief Corps of Truro.

To Mr. and Mrs. Turner were born two children, Harry F. Turner now of Des Moines, Iowa, and Ruby F. wife of I. H. Camp, whose home is at Gravity, Iowa.

Besides the above named children she leaves to mourn her departure, her husband, Walter, her sister Jennie Klein, her mother Mrs. Kate Klein at Murray; a brother, Herman Klein, living on a farm near Murray; a brother Charles Klein, and a sister, Mrs. R. J. Dutton, both of Denver, Colorado, and a sister, Mrs. C. C. Dutton of Truro; her two grandsons, Max and Rex Turner, sons of Harry Turner; besides a host of more distant relatives and friends and neighbors. In the last sickness and death of Mrs. Turner there is a peculiar coincidence in the fact that she took to her bed on August 10th, the birthday of her daughter Ruby; she was operated upon for appendicitis August 13, she died December 28th, the birthday of her grandson, Rex, and her funeral was preached on the birthday of her son Harry December 30th.

Sister Turner’s last sickness was a long and trying one, but she bore it patiently, even cheerfully, and when she realized that she must go, she called for her pastor, Rev. Frederick Cooper, and talked the matter over with him calmly, with full confidence leaning upon the rich promises of God in His Word. There was no mere getting ready at the last moment, she had been doing that all through the years, but she found great consolation in having her mind refreshed with the precious promises for her remaining last hours. She passed away very quietly and peacefully.

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